The last time Jimmie Vaughan released a solo album, Barack Obama was a little-known state senator from Illinois and the dot-com bubble had just burst. Though much has changed over the past nine years, ...

It's easy to play the blues—or at the very least it's easy to learn the basics—but keeping the form fresh and interesting is another matter entirely. Likewise, any beginner can tackle a quiet ballad, ...

This isn’t a book for the fainthearted. It’s certainly not for the puritanical. This magnificent, raunchy exploration of early blues lyrics contains references so scabrous they would make a pirate ...

Dead & Company: blues, ballads, and lots of drums for ‘One More Saturday Night’ at Fenway As long as the band’s legacy continues to evolve in some way, shape, or form, there’s no sign that it will be ...

Bandits, Ballads and Blues is almost certainly the final album by James Talley, the Nashville singer-songwriter who cemented his place in history as one of the great musical storytellers with a ...

German-born roots-music fan Chris Strachwitz founded Arhoolie Records in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1960 — a blues and folk boomtown on the verge of psychedelia. This deluxe-hardback book with four ...

Jim Johnston's latest CD Ballads and Blues is exactly what it says on the cover – a mixture of traditional Irish songs and selfpenned compositions influenced by the blues. This is his fourth recording ...

The Best Is Yet To Come; Sophisticated Lady; Close Your Eyes; When The World Was Young; Since I Fell For You; The Nearness Of You; My One And Only You; A Sleepin' Bee; Glad To Be Unhappy; If He Walked ...

The newly released DVD Ballads, Blues, and Bluegrass is a piece of Greenwich Village history unlike any I have ever seen. Back in 1961, Alan Lomax was approached by an English producer to film ...